Saturday, October 5, 2013

Introducing "thigh gap"

 By Ana CL

As if our beauty standards weren't arbitrary enough, there's been a new regulation introduced to its ever-shrinking confines.

Introducing thigh gap:  the creepy, and inexplicable obsession of sexy people all over the  Western Hemisphere!

It used to be that a person's hotness could be determined through such straightforward means as: establishing facial symmetry, or  calibrating stomach flatness. (it doesn't count if you're sucking in!) Gone are the days, when the markers of beauty were limited to a sufficiently adorable nose, or a  sufficiently white mother. It seems we have now reached the age of the Mandatory Thigh Gap.

Thigh gap, or that gap between a skinny woman's thighs, was covertly inducted into the Official Hall of  Beauty standards, sometime in 2013. (Apparently, while I was in the shower.)
And like all healthy people,  I am still coming to terms with this development. Over a second lunch.








2 comments:

  1. The first time the notion of a thigh gap crossed my consciousness (though not in those terms) was when I was in middle school. A girl complimented me on mine and I was left utterly bewildered and uncomfortable. Middle school.

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  2. what are you serious?? then again, thin parts have always been in. this recent wave of thigh gap envy, seems to be a new trend though. (the article i linked to was from a couple days ago.)

    But aside from that, being complimented for possessing a gap in your thighs, seems like the most bizarre thing ever.. (um thanks? I put it there myself.)

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